Lucas 8:22-25

Puedes leer o es probable que conozcas esta historia de Jesus y sus discipulos.  Jesus les dice que tenian que cruzar un lago y cuando comenzaron a cruzar Jesus se durmio y despues comenzo una gran tormenta al punto que ellos ya se podian imaginar muertos.  Pero despues de tantos golpes puedo imaginarme en esa barca que alguien se golpio fuerta la cabeza y recordo que el maesto estaba en la barca y muy valientes tomandose fuerte de donde podian fueran hasta donde el maestro estaba dormido y con voz tranquila llaman al maestro.  "Maestro, maestro, perecemos."  Que traducido es morimos.  Es el final de nuestras hermosas vidas.

NO!  Ellos gritaran desesperados, "Maestro!  Maestro!  Perecemos!!!!  Morimos!!!!"  Jesus desperto, reprendio el viento y a las olas y todo esto quedo en calma.  La Palabra dice: "bonanza."  Tranquilo.  Como si nunca hubiera estado un gran viento y un gran tormenta.  Y Jesus les dijo: "Donde esta vuestra fe?"  Y no pudieron contestar porque estaban llenos de miedo y solo podian decir entre ellos maravillados y sorprendidos "quien es este que aun los vientos y las aguas manda, y le obedecen?!"

Yo no se en que barca estas ni mucho menos que tan fuerte esta la tormenta.  Si Dios te ha dad un llamado o te ha escogido como su hijo no veas que tan dificil es la tormenta.  Puedes decire tal vez como los discipulos que vas a morir, que tu problema no tiene solucion, que tu distancia entre tu y Dios esta muy lejos o que fallastes a Dios en tu ministerio, y todos te senalan y prefieres regresar a tras a la orilla de donde Dios te saco.

Dios te pregunta: "Donde esta tu fe?"

Los discipulos podian ver, me imagino al cuerpo del Senor fisico dormiendo en esa barca pero te pregunto a ti - crees que una persona puede dormir con tanto sangoloteo por las olas del lago en esa barca.  En mi opinion, pienso que Dios estaba totalmente despierto, pero permitio que todo eso pasara para probar la fe de sus discipulos.

Dios prueba nuestra fe, como nosotros ponoemos en practica dia con dia la palabra del Senor que comemos.  Dios no esta dormido, El esta a tu lado.  Tu eres el dormido.  Despierta, ya!!!  Basta de tanto suframiento y dolor.  Dios llevo todo sufrimiento y dolor en la cruz y rompio la cadenas de pecado que te tenian o te tiene atrapado. Solo permite que Dios tome el control nuevamente si antes conosias de su Palabra, y si es la primera vez, abre tambien la puerta de tu corazon y El traera esa bonanza a tu vida - la tranquilidad que tu alma y sobre todo a tu espiritu necesita - no estas solo, Dios esta contigo.  Dios te bendiga.

ILORIN, Nigeria, September 2 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim extremists on Sunday (Aug. 31) set ablaze a church building in the Baboko area of this city in central Nigeria’s Kwara state.

The Rev. Samuel Ogowole told Compass that the extremists barred members of his Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) from getting to the building on Sunday, and the Town Planning Development Authority had sealed off the premises following pressure from area Muslims. The congregation had gone to a site on the outskirts of the city for worship when the Muslim extremists destroyed the church building, a 20 million naira (US$170,575) structure built four years ago.

Rev. Ogowole told Compass that area Muslims had complained that the church building is located near a mosque. Compass found that the church building was 500 meters from the Baboko mosque.

Muslim leaders had filed a complaint with an interfaith panel called the Inter-Religious Committee, established by the Kwara state government to mediate Muslim-Christian conflicts. Rev. Ogowole said the body initially ruled against the Islamists’ claim, but under Muslim pressure later issued a second resolution ordering the church to relocate.

“The Inter-Religious committee after investigating the issue explained that it is not true that our church is close to the mosque, and as such there is no justification of the claims of the Muslims,” he said. “But the Muslims still have not allowed us to worship here in peace.”

To appease the Muslim community, Rev. Ogowole said, the Kwara state government offered church leaders 3 million naira (US$25,580) and ordered the congregation to relocate. Church leaders rejected the order, saying they had spent nearly seven times that much to construct the church building.

Muslims had objected to the church building soon after construction began in 2001 on property that the church had legally purchased. Rev. Ogowole told Compass that Muslims initially applied pressure on town planning authorities in 2005.

“This ultimately resulted in a relocation notice, asking us to relocate the church out of the area in seven days,” he said. “However, we objected to the relocation order. Our position was that relocating to another place would mean creating hardship for our members here, who would have to travel many kilometers in order to worship.”

The Rev. Cornelius Fawenu, secretary of the Kwara state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), told reporters yesterday that a review of the inter-religious committee’s ruling is under discussion by panel members and leaders of CAN and the church.

“Both CAN and the church are currently dialoguing on the review of the final resolution with the committee on the matter, all in the interest of equity, justice and fairness, even though the committee had earlier resolved in favor of the church before the twist of events necessitated a second resolution, which we have since appealed against,” Rev. Fawenu said.

The building had been constructed with approval from the Kwara state government, which issued a right of occupancy certificate to the church. Compass obtained property documents from church leaders showing the legality of the building: the certificate of right of occupancy, an Environmental Impact Assessment report, town planning approval and certification and land rental fees that to date were all paid.

Second Attack

Sunday marked the second time that Muslim fanatics attacked the church. On June 16, they broke into the church sanctuary, destroying musical instruments, burning pews and pulling down part of a fence around the premises.

The fanatics also wrote Islamic inscriptions on the church gate. Rev. Ogowole told Compass church leaders reported the incident to the police.

“A bag containing Islamic items was recovered by the police the following morning in the church premises,” he said.

Originally the church was planted in 1993 in the Surulere area of Ilorin. It had 300 members, including three pastors and three evangelists, before its building in the Baboko area was destroyed. The construction of the church building began in 2001, with worship services beginning in 2004.

Rev. Fawenu of CAN confirmed the manner in which the church building was burned and said leaders of the association opposed the relocation order on the grounds that it “amounts to persecuting the members of that church.”

Speaking to reporters yesterday, Rev. Fawenu said he hopes the state government will intervene to prosecute the arsonists.

“If this matter is not addressed and the perpetrators of this sacrilegious act made to account for their sin and the concerned church adequately compensated, we will not be left with any other option than to believe that Kwara state is a state whereby everybody is at liberty to visit their fellow human beings with jungle justice,” he said.

Leaders of the Muslim community in Baboko declined to speak on the issue. A Kwara state spokesperson said officials would comment on the destruction of the church only after an investigation.  

Report from Compass Direct News

Taking time out of my busy schedule to mangle and abuse yet another sweater. What a fine specimen this one turned out to be. Both sleeves unraveled beautifully in length. It was the front and back (probably due to my carelessness in cutting) unraveled in two yard pieces. I think they can still be used in emergencies. This sweater started to come undone at the sleeves (thanks Old Navy..grumble bah) but I loved the color too much to get rid of it. I am thinking of transforming the yarn into comfy house socks..thickly cabled or something like that. Maybe cooking up a little pattern to go with them. I am not planning on getting to these until late fall. I loved the stitch pattern of the sweater and am hoping to duplicate it for some other project (kept a small swatch to copy from).

Before:

After:

And now for the manipulation! a FO undergoing some hopeful blocking, all that remains is adding buttons and wearing it in time for fall! I loved this scarf but would definitely make another using the recommended gauge. This scarf was made using size US6 needles and Caron Simply Soft Heathers; Autumn colorway. I changed the gauge to 5 sts per inch.

Name: French Girl Envy
Pattern: Lace Ribbon Scarf

Inspired by this one clip, when I got home I decided to watch the whole thing on youtube. Although it's an 80s production, it still had a massive impact. I was horrified by it. The absolute panic of everyone trying to get to safety at the sound of a siren. It would be every person for themselves. The programme showed people trying to flee the cities before they were hit, but the government had closed the motorways to non-official traffic. So, the normal citizens couldn't get away easily. That's poor. I'm not a fan.

Then, when the nuclear bomb hits, what really struck me and the FP when she saw it in the clip, was some milk bottles melting. The fact they were there showed just how it was a normal day and how quickly it could go horribly wrong. When the bomb went off it showed what it would do to people in close proximity...in that they just melt into nothingness. And those near to it, who get terribly burnt and are in terrible pain. That was horrid. Then the effects of fallout. Awful. Even 13 years later, things were terrible. The government...or the powers that now were, forced the people who had survived to re-construct everything and try and re-build society. Which is fine, except they paid them with food and made them work even though they were terribly sick from the effects of the radiation. And those too sick to work didn't get as much food. Our society was reduced to nothing.

It may have only been a drama. But it got me thinking. For example, one of the points it threw up was how the NHS wouldn't be properly equipped to deal with such an event. The state of the hospitals a few days after the attack in Threads....well let's just say Florence Nightingale would have been appalled. It went completely back to how things were in, for example, the Crimean war. So if you lived through the attack, you wouldn't get the medical care you needed. There was not enough food, or rather there was at first, but it couldn't be distributed. No fuel. The fallout and debris stopped the sun's rays from coming through, meaning it was very cold and crops couldn't grow. This could all happen. Especially with tensions increasing with Russia right now. Although, I don't know whether God would allow us all to destroy the Earth and every single person with nuclear weapons. I think, if Britain was to come under nuclear attack (Heaven forbid), I'd rather die straight away than live in that sort of world.

Nice pleasant thought. It's was 80s BBC docudramas do for you. It really annoys me though, how it's the small minority of politcians who make all these decisions....and we will all have to suffer for it. For things, many don't even understand. I think, if they are that bothered about stuff, they should get together and just fight it out between themselves and leave me out of it. Thank you very much.

Like a belly dancer, i have the answer

So i put yo head in the fan, slice and dice yo mind with my pen

Create horror for the man, who destroys young mind's,

By selling crack, if i'll see you do that i'll attack,

I'll massacre your whole pack

Giving you a blood bath

Cause i kill and move like a free mason

I'll fuck your creation, giving you an brain infection,

Meleeing you with a spoon

Splash your blood on the walls of your child's room,

Use verbal abuse, to smash your caboos,

We are not doing a truce

You look like a moose, you have the brain of a goose,

And this world is run by fake christians and fake politicians

They talk about terrorism and on tv you can see social crucifications,

The corrupt domination, they are killing our population,

Crack industrialization, government's high taxation,

Kid's getting shot in bus stations,

Killing the nations, body poisoning and soul starvation,

And God doesn't give a fuck about his creation,

We are killing each other, killing our mothers, fathers and brothers,

And they think that this shit is funny, the only thing they want and care about is money,

I'll kill you sonny, i'll serve you on a plate like a good cooked bunny.

And beware cuz i'll cover you in leches, i'm tierd of your fake christian preaches and fake speeches

Malicios and vicious, distractions from the cultural foundations,degrading the population.

So i'll start the technologization from the temple of hip hop and lit the night from it's roof top.

This summer, I taught Web/Game/Flash design at a computer camp. The kids were OK, but I couldn't stand working with some of the other instructors or director or lead instructor at ALL! I really, truly hated them. There were only two other instructors who I didn't mind. The others were complete douchebags. The only way I'd consider working with that company again is if I taught a different class, and worked at a different location with different people. Seriously. It was that bad.

The camp didn't result in ALL bad experiences for me, though. One good thing that came of it was that I met someone at the training with whom I get along very well (see below post about the dream!). As it turns out, I DID see him again, and we went and hung out in Chicago for a day, resulting in Blue Man Group at the end of the night! It was an amazing day!!! So much fun! :)

The rest of the summer has been pretty boring, though, really. I came back to school, and have been working for a while to keep myself somewhat entertained, as well as keep the money a-flowin'.

I'm actually sort of really bored. And pissed that school hasn't started sooner! I wish that it had started last week. Instead, I have to wait until September 2! Ridiculous! I'll have some AWESOME classes, though, which I'm VERY excited about. I've been considering various paths to take with my schooling and future life, and I've come to some conclusions I feel happy and confident about. I'm excited for once in my life to get back to classes and get on with my life!

Well, I guess that's all for now. Not so much has happened as I thought at first. ;) Sorry about that.

Escuchen aqui My Apocalypse!!!!

The world needs you too. Help rid us of crocs. (But not all of them cos Dominc and I still need to continue the competition...)

http://www.komoricave.com/crocs/charity.htm

Gomez is an imprisoned gang leader. Before he is to be released, his kid brother is killed in a drive-by shooting. Everyone expects Gomez to get revenge, but a chaplain leads him to Christ. In a surprise ending, Gomez forgives the killer.

The Great Wall of China is an integral feature of the geography of Northern China and has captured the imaginations of people throughout its long and distinguished history or some people may wish to think of as its notorious history. The Chinese call this magnificent wall Wan Li Chang Cheng when literally translate means Wall of Ten Thousand Li. A Li is a Chinese measurement of distance such as a mile or kilometer.

The Great Wall of China saw its first piecemeal construction from the fifth century BC down to the 16th century AD as a strategic deterrence against raids, plunders and even invasions from northern nomadic tribes of which the Chinese at that time regarded as hostile barbarians.

When the Chinese were unified under Emperor Qin Shi Huang or Shi Huangdi in 221 BC, the first emperor of China started the construction of the Great Wall to protect China's northern border towns and villages against the Huns, Xiong Nu tribesman. The words Xiong Nu when directly translated from Chinese literally means Fierce Fury. You can imagine how the Chinese was so fearful of this tribe by labeling it with such a name.

The Xiong Nus were finally driven to the far flung corners of the Gobi desert after 3 Chinese military search and destroy expeditions. Even then, the walls failed to curb the invasion of China by the Mongols (Yuan Dynasty) and the Manchurians (Ching Dynasty).

Historical records showed that as many as 300,000 men working for ten years on the first phase of the wall's construction. Stories of hardship and thousands of tragic death suffered by the conscripted laborers are passed down to show that Shi Huangdi was a hated tyrant.

Constructed mostly with bricks and masonry, the wall was built by Chinese rulers of 10 dynasties and the length of the wall, meandering through mountains and valleys totaled an incredible 25,000 km or almost 16,000 miles long.

Since the 1950s, five parts of the wall have been restored and like most tourists, I visited the wall from the Badaling section one winter afternoon in Nankou Pass after a visit to the Ming Tombs. I was awestruck with the wall structure as well as the fantastically stunning winter scenery and landscape.

The second most popular access to the Great Wall is through Mutianyu, northeast of Beijing in Huairou County. The advantage of visiting the Great Wall of China from this point is that it is less crowded than the Badaling access

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Beloved,

There are days when nothing seems right. When every shell you pick up on the winding shore is broken. When the silken treasure slips through your fingers too quickly. When comforts are empty. And the world is noise.

On those jagged edged days, when the wind is screaming for a reason only she understands. And you find yourself all alone.
Turn your face to the sun.

There is goodness in the world, that even the river of tears cannot erase.
There is love in the world, that the numbed armies of fear can not destroy.
Sometimes that goodness is everywhere apparent. It pours from the heart of every moment. From the light of every smile.

On those soft days, love hides in the eaves to drop like sweet honey on your forehead and sings her lilting lullabies in the arms of the winds.

But on some days, Beloved. On days like today....
We need to look, to see.
So turn your face to the sun.
Even when she is nowhere to be seen.

Go inside yourself. Find a speck, a splinter of beauty to be grateful for.
'Yes', the day has worn you. And 'Yes' our mistakes have been so many.
But say 'Thank you' anyway.

Take account of all that is in your possession.
A mind. A heart. A body.
A life that breathes, even if for just one more day.

Now count the eyes that have smiled
at you on your wild journey,
the hands that have held you tenderly,
the ears that have listened,
the prayers that have been made on your behalf.
And whisper your 'Thank you' again.

Count the sky that has watched you grow
with His painted eyes,
The heaving waves that find their echo
in the tides of your breathing,
The little birds that have sung
you their songs,
The stars which have been a lamp
to your path,
and are your
rightful inheritance.

Count unexpected laughter,
Count undeserved grace,
Count Passion and Love making and Dreams yet to be born,
And bow your head and say 'thank you',

Now count the lives who still need your light,
The hungry, the sick, the helpless,
Count the children who will die today
and imagine if with the breath of your body
you could help just
one.

Turn your face to the sun,
And know yourself as a child of the light.
You are the Goodness that cannot be extinguished,
The love that burns through the darkest night.

And perhaps,
In turning
You will see what i have seen,
that this day where everything seemed wrong,
was not your curse,
It was your gift,
Your chance...
To find inside yourself a forgotten 'thank you',
To smile in the face of the grim suppressors,
To stand in the heart of the glowering darkness
and turn your face to the sun.

~ Dr. Maithri Goonetilleke

To read more of his poems visit his blog 'Soaring Impulse'.

Obama believes in change alright. A big part of that has to do with our gun rights and the 2nd Amendment in general. I just received my "American Rifleman" magazine today. In it is Obama's 10 point plan to "change" the 2nd amendment. The list is as follows:

1. Ban use of firearms for home self-defence.

2. Pass Federal laws eliminating your Right-to-Carry.

3. Ban the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns.

4. Close down 90% of the gun shops in America.

5. Ban rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.

6. Increace federal taxes on guns and ammunition by 500%.

7. Restore voting rights for five million criminals including those who have been convicted of using a gun to commit a violent crime.

8. Expand the Clinton semi-auto ban to include millions more firearms.

9. Mandate a government-issued license to purchase a firearm.

10. Appoint judges to the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Judiciary who share his views on the 2nd Amendment.

The only other thing I can say is to spread the word. I believe Obama will destroy this country. Though I haven't decided if he is the puppeteer or the puppet of the liberal agenda. One way or the other the end is the same. Let everyone know the true danger or 2nd Amendment rights in if Obama gets into office.

FBMG Smithy - USA Carry Member

Russian Government offered Georgia to move their ships to the sea or they will destroy them in the port during the next two ours. The choice was brilliant. As they informed they will destroy them anyway.

A farmer sprays pesticides in the southern province of Bac Lieu. Local farmers will receive support to fight against the recent epidemic of brown plant hoppers. — VNA/VNS Photo Huynh Su

HA NOI — The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will provide 45 tonnes of free pesticides for Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces hit with an epidemic of brown plant hoppers.

The urgent relief (decision 1038/QD-TTG) was signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung early this week.

According to statistics from Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces, 200,000 ha of rice in the region have already been destroyed, nearly 40,000 of it in the last week.

Farmers have transplanted rice seedlings on more than 1.8 million ha in the region. The density of hoppers on one square metre was between 10,000 and 30,000.

In Kien Giang Province, all rice growing areas have been hit. Other most affected provinces include Bac Lieu, Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Long An and Soc Trang.

Strong southwest winds and the "staggered" planting of seedlings are believed to have encouraged the pests.

At least 11,000 ha of paddy in the region has already been destroyed by ragged-stunt disease, a disease caused by plant hoppers.

To minimise damage, provincial authorities are closely monitoring the epidemic’s development and 82,000 ha of rice have been sprayed.

They also asked farmers not to use two kinds of seed, IR 50404 and OM 506.

Agricultural promotion staff have instructed farmers to transplant seedlings concurrently and tend the young plants properly to help avoid infestation. —